The Cloud and Virtualisation Summit Africa offers innovative resources, ideas and best practice case studies enabling your enterprise to apply them immediately in order to leverage the cloud, assisting you in maximising performance, minimising costs and improving the scale of your projects. Improving resource utilisation through virtualising IT infrastructures is fast becoming precedence for enterprises, globally. Successful deployment requires upfront preparation and strategising when carefully determining the appropriate infrastructure components and architecture for the enterprise. The summit will allow attendees to discover the basic concepts behind cloud and virtualisation, the potential enterprise benefits and key decisions associated with virtualisation projects, and exactly how to get started with virtualisation assessment.
Event Cloud and Virtualisation Summit Africa
Date 10 to 11 October 2012
Venue Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
Website http://www.cloudsummit.co.za/
The summit has been strategically developed to enable the convergence of enterprise and technology leaders, allowing attendees to explore the future of IT with cloud and virtualisation, and how cloud computing is fundamentally transforming the way in which we think about, acquire and use computing resources. The summit will allow senior executives to discover appropriate levels of enterprise cloud computing engagement, and how they can be deployed alongside existing static deployments of hardware and software. Share experiences with internationally renowned guests and industry experts, providing invaluable opportunities to discover next-generation transformations from a cutting edge conference agenda addressing critical industry cloud computing, virtualisation and enterprise-related issues. Best practice case studies presented by industry leaders and experts, while taking advantage of the unrivalled networking opportunities with executive peers within the African industry.
Invited speakers include;
 | Dr Happy Sithole Centre of High Performance Computing, South Africa Director |  | Willem van Biljon Co-Founder & Vice President of Products Nimbula |
 | Simon Hudson Indwe Risk Services Executive Head: Business Improvement & Group CIO |  | Derrick Plank Founder ClearSpace Consulting |
| | Doug Vela Ubank CIO | | Rocky Gwewera Senior Manager: Enterprise Architecture Development Sasol |
 | Tshidi Modiragale Mutual & Federal Insurance Limited Company IT Risk and Compliance |  | Rohan Isaacs Director Norton Rose South Africa |
| | Pat O’Callaghan Group IT Infrastructure Manager De Beers |  | Malcolm MacDonald CIO I-Net Bridge |
 | Shaybaaz Kumandan Group IT Manager NBC Holdings |  | Hrusostomos Vicatos Managing Director Victree |
 | Kim Andersen Principal Advisor CXO Advisor |  | Trevor Cronje CEO RentWorks |
 | Seaparo Phala CIO Department of Arts and Culture |  | Neville Perry CIO Bancabc |
I would like to offer you a full day press pass, with full access to the conference agenda to share with your audience. Please find all of the information including banners, logos, industry information, and videos at www.cloudsummit.co.za.
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